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Caderousse does nothing to prevent an innocent man from being accused. He has only a superficial role as part of the plot to frame the young man, and does not profit from it because of his incompetence and addiction. He even understands, however dimly, that Dantes will be able to take revenge, should the plot be discovered. When "one gets out of prison,' said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, 'and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge'" (Chapter 4). Caderousse eventually meets an untimely end, after murdering a man to whom he sold the jewel the Dantes deliberately gave to him, because Dantes knew that Caderousse's temper would result in the drunkard's destruction.
Villefort is perhaps the most complex character in The Count of Monte Cristo. At first, he states that he believes that Dantes is innocent, showing that he is capable of perceiving evidence in a logical rather than an emotional manner. However, the crown prosecutor is also cowardly. He fears that if he protects Dantes, he will suffer political repercussions. He decides to destroy all exculpating...
This could implicate Villefort as a supporter of Bonaparte by association. Villefort represents the failure of legal justice, and its self-interested quality. Dantes admits that he is consumed with hatred for the man: "I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world is to recompense and punish," he tells Villefort, when he meets the man responsible for his imprisonment face-to-face once again (Chapter 49).
These three men represent different facets of the nature of vengeance and redemption. Dantes redeems the fortunes of Morrel, as Morrel's faith in Dantes held strong, even when Dantes was dead to the world in prison. To Caderousse who washed his hands of his responsibility to his friend, like Pontius Pilate did to Jesus, Dantes gives a rope in the form of a diamond by which the drunken man may hang himself. And finally, against Villefort, Dantes turns the full rage of his revenge, as Villefort used his position as prosecutor to protect himself, rather than to see justice done.
Without hope, The Count of Monte Cristo would fall apart and become a tragic novel of only vengeance, rather than a work of art that inspires readers to stay firm in their convictions and realize their dreams are attainable. References Bloom Harold, ed. Eugene O'Neill. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Coward, D. & Dumas, A. (1998). Twenty years after. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dumas, A. (1928). The Count of Monte
Fernand demonstrates that hope can be an engine fueling acts of wanton and selfish cruelty as well. Ironically, this would also become a significant dimension of the hope harbored by the Dantes himself. While there was a portion of his imprisonment in which the hope of young Dantes helped to sustain him with notions of escape and freedom, he still remained frustratingly uncertain about the factors which placed him
Though of questionable morality, Dantes' eventual desire to succeed in achieving revenge is instilled and made feasible by his mentor's guiding hand and by the hope which is introduces into him. And it is only in Faria's death that his teachings begin to manifest as aspects of a real future, not for the impertinently youthful Dante's, now dead after year's of captivity, but for the inexorably patient and newly emergent Count
Betrayal in Fiction and Drama Betrayal Throughout the conflicts of fiction and the dramatic undertones of plays, the notion of betrayal always remains a common and tragic theme. Betrayal itself has mostly been the causation of motives such as love, jealousy, anger, and hatred. As one further delves into the depths of the word within literature, one finds that betrayal itself leads to an alarming number of characters seeking justice, retribution, peace
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